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   JoshRountree | Dec 09, 2008 05:57am | #1

   Looks awesome, can you give anymore details?

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   mikeroop | Dec 09, 2008 05:59am | #2

   Sure Josh what would you like to know?

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   davidmeiland | Dec 09, 2008 06:11am | #3

   Are you running an I joist as your rim? Hard to tell but it looks like it in the first pic.

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   mikeroop | Dec 09, 2008 06:14am | #4

   Dave we normally do on the rims that run parallel to the joist. I really hate I joist though.

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   davidmeiland | Dec 09, 2008 06:22am | #5

   Never seen that out here. It's always rim board on top of the foundation or any exterior wall @ second story.

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   BossHog | Dec 09, 2008 05:30pm | #7

   "Are you running an I joist as your rim?"

   Most manufacturers I've dealt with allow it under certain circumstances. There's a max PLF load, and you can't have any concentrated loads.

   In general, I think it's a bad idea. If you ever want to bolt a ledger board for a deck on there, you don't have anything to bolt to.
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   ANDYSZ2 | Dec 09, 2008 06:18pm | #8

   So wouldn't header legs be a concentrated load and I thought any wall setting on them required webbing filled or 2x stock an !/8" longer to take the load off the Ijoists or in this case a rim joist.I believe the concern was the webbing knifing the top and bottom parts.

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   BossHog | Dec 09, 2008 06:34pm | #9

   "So wouldn't header legs be a concentrated load..."

   Probably not unless you had a wide opening with a lot of weight on the header.

   "...I thought any wall setting on them required webbing filled or 2x stock an !/8" longer to take the load off the I-joists.."

   You're thinking of where I-joists cross a load bearing interior wall where there's a wall that stacks above it.
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   ANDYSZ2 | Dec 09, 2008 06:41pm | #10

   Yeah but isn't that the same thing as using an I joist for a rim joist.

   It has a load bearing wall stacked on top of it

   The rim joist are an 1/8" taller to keep the load off the I joists.

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   BossHog | Dec 09, 2008 06:46pm | #11

   No, it's completely different. A bearing wall stacked over a perpendicular I-joists puts a lot of load at one point.An I-joist used as a rim board has a (more or less) uniform load all across it.
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   ANDYSZ2 | Dec 09, 2008 07:04pm | #12

   I get it.

   I built an I joist second floor system this summer and was shocked at the 70+ page set of instructions and rules.

   I backfilled the webbing with 3/4" plywood both sides everywhere plumbing drain lines ran thru and added 2x material on both sides of each I joist  where they sat on my steel I beam for a future wall .

   I personnally wanted to use web joists but there was a 2200$ difference in price.But by the time I added up all the extra labor and beams and inconvenience the web joists make alot more sense to me.

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   mikeroop | Dec 10, 2008 01:32am | #14

   yea we use band and fill in the web when necessary and we always use crush blocks under any load bearing points so all is good:) 

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   davidhawks | Dec 09, 2008 07:03am | #6

   Nice sized project to have this time of year and in this economy.  Congrats.

   Like Dave M, I've never seen I-joist used as band material, but don't see how it would be problematic.  (I'm sure someone here will though <G>).

   Is that a hip set truss kit or did y'all cut it?

   BTW, nice work--clean job.

   The best reward for a job well done is the opportunity to do another.

   
   

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   Edited 12/8/2008 11:03 pm ET by davidhawks

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   mikeroop | Dec 10, 2008 01:29am | #13

   99% of our roofs are stick built as was this one the hips were 32ft 12" LVL's with 2x8 rafters go figure my brother drove around behind the job when i had the roof ttotally ready for sheeting and came back and said you need to get down and take a picture of that it looks way cool but i didn't maybe i can get one from the attic for ya

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   frammer52 | Dec 10, 2008 01:36am | #15

   Love the picts!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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   mikeroop | Dec 10, 2008 04:49am | #16

   Thank for looking.